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This week is going to be tough. I am trying to stay neutral in this one and just give good information. At the beginning of this year I predicted the Cowboys to likely win this one for one of Green Bay’s six losses and I had Dallas winning the Super Bowl. With the AFC falling apart it just looks more like an NFC year. I am not going to predict this one and just go into the points where I think the game will be won or lost for each team.

Green Bay needs to rally and get up for this game. Green Bay has faced a running team and a passing team so far and both gave us a few problems here and there.

The major issue for this game will be in the hands of the front seven. Not deep and insightful there I know, but the keys to this game are getting ahead and making the Cowboys play from behind.

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…1971: All the breaks were bad for the Packers. In his first game as head coach, Dan Devine suffered a fractured leg in a freak sideline collision, and his team reached extraordinary depths of bumbling incompetence in a drizzling rainstorm — and yet, they still almost beat the New York Giants.

The game began its bizarre course midway through the first quarter when an errant 45-yard field goal try by the Giants’ Pete Gogolak was fielded by Packer CB Ken Ellis at the goal line and returned for a winding 100-yard touchdown. After Giants QB Fran Tarkenton struck back with a pair of scoring passes, two weird plays in the space of six seconds netted two TDs for the Giants while their offense rested.

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